Brent Woodie

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• Nov 8, 2011

  Millions of Customers Still Use Dial-up, AOL Report Indicates

  According to newly released data, AOL still has 3.5 million people who sign up to the internet using painfully slow dial up, with 200,000 new people registering last year alone.

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  Nov 8, 2011

  Huge Asteroid to Pass By Earth Tuesday (PHOTO)

  Tuesday a huge asteroid, named 2005YU5, is reported to pass by Earth. Although it poses no threat of hitting Earth, scientists are using the opportunity to study the 1,300 feet (400 meters) wide asteroid.

• Nov 8, 2011

  Groupon Not as Successful at Bringing In New Customers?

  In its pitch to local businesses, Groupon promises merchants that the discounts offered through its service will deliver "valuable new customers, guaranteed." However, according to research done by Forrester some of the proposed benefits Groupon often times goes unfulfilled.

• Nov 8, 2011

  Mail Order Chicken Pox Lollipops: Parents Warned About Illegal Practice

  Authorities and doctors are warning parents, who want to avoid chickenpox vaccines for their children, to abstain from trying a new mail-order scheme to share lollipops licked by children infected with the disease. The process, which is promoted as a way to create immunity to chickenpox, is not only unsafe but also illegal.

• Nov 8, 2011

  Magic Johnson HIV Announcement 20 Years Later

  Twenty years ago, on Nov. 7, 1991 Los Angeles Lakers superstar Magic Johnson held a press conference to announce he was retiring from basketball because he had been diagnosed with H.I.V.

• Nov 7, 2011

  Lindsay Lohan Released From Jail Just Hours After Arriving

  Lindsay Lohan, set to serve a 30-day sentence, has been released from jail less than five hours after being booked into the Century Regional Detention facility.

• Nov 7, 2011

  Navy SEAL Dispels Myths of Osama bin Laden Killing Raid

  A former Navy SEAL, claiming to have inside information, has come forward with “corrected” information about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. He says that the information released through media outlets has been distorted.

• Nov 7, 2011

  NBA Lockout 2011: Owners Give Players Ultimatum - Entire Season Set to be Dumped

  N.B.A owners have given players until the close of business Wednesday to accept a deal proposed to them or risk being greeted with a deal less favorable afterwards.

• Nov 6, 2011

  Eddie Murphy and Drew Barrymore Lead Hollywood's 'Most Overpaid Stars' List

  Drew Barrymore tops the list of Forbes’ Hollywood’s Most Overpaid Stars. It was reported by the magazine that Barrymore’s films earn just 40 cents for every dollar she is paid.

• Nov 6, 2011

  Beyonce Pregnant: Kelly Rowland Lets Slip Baby's Gender

  Kelly Rowland could have revealed a little bit too much to the press this past week. In an interview with Bang Showbiz, Kelly Rowland stated, “I have no idea what I’m going to buy Beyonce at the baby shower because Jay is going to buy that little girl everything possible. She won’t be spoilt but she will be very well looked after.”